Sunday, April 10, 2011

Early War Germans so far

Though pretty much all of these have featured in recent Battle Reports, I hadn't really taken the time to show them off in their entirety! Now that I have a repsectable panzer force for EW, it's time to move on to some infantry after a quick detour to work on another Steve-o-grad building!

If you haven't kept up you should know that these are painted using my ultra-fast technique for EW German armor. I started on these guys not long ago at all, and have been knocking them out. Are they up to my usual standards? Probably not,but I am quite happy with them considering the small amount of time invested!

STUKAS

HEAVY PANZERSPAH

PANZER IVs

I actually have 1 more Panzer IV, though it was missing a gun barrel- Battle Front's Customer Service was quick to get my a replacement- just haven't painted it yet.

STUGS

PANZER IIs

Technically these are all Panzer II Fs, though after buying and painting 17, I'll be damned if I do any other variations- road wheels and hatch shapes be damned! These will be used for all flavors of Panzer IIs throughout early and mid war.

Anatoli- nah haven't tried them yet since they can only support infantry. Whenever I do a new army, I usually knock out as much armor as I can first (since it paints more quickly for me), then start fleshing out the infantry. In this case, I used the Stugs as my test pieces, even though it means they won't be usable for a while.

They are fairly scary, but they have some significant shortcomings! Lack of MG is a big one- your big polish infantry units should have no problem overwhelming them. Your tanks can't go toe to toe so you need to use indirect fire smoke bombardments to force the stugs to move (and thus reducing their firepower and forcing them to come closer).